Company

Petronet LNG Limited, one of the fastest
growing world-class companies in the Indian energy sector, has set up the country's first LNG receiving and regasification terminal at Dahej,
Gujarat, and another terminal at Kochi, Kerala. While the Dahej terminal has a nominal capacity of 15 MMTPA,
the Kochi terminal has a capacity of 5 MMTPA.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas consists mainly of Methane and small amounts of ethane, propane and butane. It is transported through pipelines but is extremely bulky. A high-pressure gas pipeline can transport in a day only about one-fifth of the energy that can be transported through an oil pipeline.

Terminals

The Company has set up South East Asia's first LNG Receiving and Regasification Terminal with an original nameplate capacity of 5 MMTPA at Dahej, Gujarat. The infrastructure was developed in the shortest possible time and at a benchmark cost. The capacity of the terminal has been expanded to 10 MMTPA and the same has been commissioned in June, 2009. The expansion involved construction of 2 additional LNG storage tanks and other vaporization facilities. The terminal is meeting around 20% of the total gas demand of the country.

CSR

Petronet LNG, as responsible Corporate/Community/Government Citizens, undertake Socio-Economic Development Programme
to supplement the efforts to meet priority needs of the community with the aim to help them become self-reliant.
These efforts would be generally around our work centres mostly in the areas of Education, Civil Infrastructure,
Healthcare, Sports & Culture, Entrepreneurship in the Community. Petronet LNG also support Water Management and
Disaster Relief in the country thereby help to bolster its image with key stakeholders.

Media Centre

Four of the top public sector companies of the country's Hydrocarbon Sector viz. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and GAIL (India) Limited (GAIL) have invested in Petronet LNG. Each has a 12.5% equity share, leading to a total of 50% for the four.

Four of the top public sector companies of the country's Hydrocarbon Sector viz. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and GAIL (India) Limited (GAIL) have invested in Petronet LNG. Each has a 12.5% equity share, leading to a total of 50% for the four.

M/s. Moody's Investor Service ("Moody's") has assigned Baa3 Corporate Family Rating to Petronet LNG Limited. The outlook on the rating is stable.

It may be noted that Baa3 is also the external rating of India as a Country and, therefore, PLL has been assigned rating equivalent to that of the Sovereign.

This is the first time that PLL has gone for a credit rating from an International Rating Agency. With this rating, PLL has joined the elite group of companies like Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Bharti Airtel Limited, Indian Oil Corporation Limited and National Thermal Power Corporation Limited who are similarly rated by the Moody's.

PLL's rating reflects its dominant position in the gas sector in India.

PLL is a company formed as a joint venture among BPCL, GAIL, IOCL and ONGC who together hold 50% equity in the Company. GDF International, a GDF Suez company, holds another 10% equity and 5.2% equity is held by ADB. PLL has two LNG plants in India. The first plant at Dahej, in the state of Gujarat, currently has a capacity to import, store and regasify 10 MMTPA equivalent of LNG. This capacity is being further enhanced to15 MMTPA. The second plant of PLL is at Kochi, in the state of Kerala, with an annual capacity of 5 MMTPA. Pre-project activities for PLL's third LNG terminal at Gangavaram in the state of Andhra Pradesh have already been completed and PLL is gearing up to commence construction activities on the terminal soon after receipt of relevant approvals from the state Government.